Problem with navigation table when using it in subdirectories

[sharksolution]

Hi all -> PHP newbie checking in.

And I have been messing that much with PHP to be honest, so please be very "gentle" when replying and explain me the solution as I'm a six year old kid - when it comes to PHP am I no older than 5 anyway.

My problem:

When calling/including the navigation table into subdirectories is the actual linking "transformed" one level down.

Overview:

Navigation is located in a central table, links is text based.

Navigation.php is located in root.

It works fine on all PHP.pages in same directory.

BUT

When I include the table into pages located in a subdirectory, is the linking messed up, as the links are changed from example main.php into subdirectory/main.php

What is the best way to tell PHP that the linking source isn't changed - like the home link will lead to main.php - regardless of being used in a subdirectory.

Thanks

[Shrike]

Sounds like you just need to use absolute URL's

<a href="/main.php">Main page</a>

[mmilano]

all links inside includes are going to be relative to whichever directory the page you are viewing in the url.

[sharksolution]

Thanks for the input.

I changed the links in the navigation file into absolute links,
home = http://www.mydomain.com/main.php and so on and it worked.

I'm sure that there are a better way way to do this, I read somewhere about a script counting the //'s - but the solution works for me now.

Thanks.